My experience with SUSE 9.3 => SUSE 10

From: MarkH (markat_at_atdot.dot.dot)
Date: 10/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:40:58 GMT

I have seen some posts about SUSE 10 being faster and some saying that
9.3 was faster. So I installed SUSE 10 on my test PC and found that it
was faster than my higher spec PCs that were running SUSE 9.3.

Now I have replaced SUSE 9.3 on 2 other PCs with SUSE 10 and it runs
faster on both. (Next I will replace my SUSE 9.3 64-bit with SUSE 10 64-
bit on this PC)

I have found that once SUSE 10 is installed I need to add the packman
site as a rpm source for YaST and then add MPlayer, YaST then adds some
other packages like the W32codec-all and then my vids play fine.

Before the upgrade I found that on my server when I switched my USB KVM
to the server it was slow and jerky in response to the mouse for a
minute or 2, With SUSE 10 it is MUCH better. Once I switch the KVM to
the server it is immediately fast and responsive.

With SUSE and Linux in general I am still a newbie, but the more I use
Linux the more I like it and now prefer it to Windows in many ways. I
am still waiting for a XNews clone for Linux though.

I run these 6 PCs:
No.1
Writer
Server
TV-PC
Test1
Test2

The first 4 used to run Windows only, now the first one runs Windows
XP/Windows XP 64-bit/SUSE 64-bit. The other 5 are all running Linux
only!

Currently I use Windows for:
Outlook which syncs to my Pocket PC
Connecting my friends' external USB HDDs that use NTFS
Running XNews
Playing games that run from Windows only

My Pocket PC is now about 2 years old, in another year or two I will see
if I can replace it with something better (hopefully something running
Linux), then I can sync it to a PC running Linux. Hopefully by then
there will be a good XNews clone available and reliable support for NTFS
if I'm lucky.

So that would just leave the games, if Linux can pick up enough market
share over the next couple of years then the games companies will look
at supporting the Linux platform with the games being released and I
will have an easier time convincing my friends to change to Linux.

It seems to me that SUSE 10 is a good step in the right direction with a
reasonably well polished interface, good performance and very reliable.
I managed to setup my server very quickly (unlike when I didn't have a
clue what to do) and within a couple of hours had all the main features
I needed working (DHCP, SAMBA, Internet gateway with firewall). I still
have much to learn, but it is much easier now that I can get the basics
up and running and can now work on minor issues one by one.

Even my WinXP setup has changed a lot over the last couple of years.
Now I use Opera or Mozilla for my web browser, Openoffice for my office
suite and Xplorer2 Lite for file management. I am actually using very
little MS software now and I like it that way. The company doing the
most to encourage computer users to look at using Linux must be
Microsoft! 

-- 
Mark Heyes (New Zealand)
See my pics at www.gigatech.co.nz (last updated 5-September-05)
"The person on the other side was a young woman. Very obviously a 
young woman. There was no possible way she could have been mistaken 
for a young man in any language, especially Braille."
Maskerade

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